It’s hard to believe it’s already time for the National Day of Prayer. So much has happened in the past year, and especially in the last few months. This year, I’m particularly grateful for this annual American tradition. The National Day of Prayer officially began in 1952, but the tradition of praying as a nation goes back much further, to the first...

As we enter the month of May, several states are reopening their economies after lockdowns inspired by COVID-19. At a press briefing on April 23, Vice President Mike Pence said 16 states had “formal reopening plans.” A New York Times tracker shows that nine other states are partially reopening their economies, and 22 states remain in lockdown. In the past...

At the Saturday Task Force Briefing from the White House this past weekend, Vice President Mike Pence spoke briefly. It was the day before Palm Sunday and he was emotional as he talked about the Easter Season and our nation’s healthcare workers. “The stories are incredibly moving about what healthcare workers are doing every day.” He talked about how they’re going...

By: Jeremy Dys – dailysignal.com – March 3, 2019 Opening public meetings with prayer is such a long-standing American tradition that it is puzzling why some continue to seek the demise of the practice based on subjective claims that such prayers are “inappropriate and divisive.” Consider these news reports just since Jan. 26: A newspaper in Venice, Florida, reported that...

By: Alex Parker – redstate.com – March 2, 2020 President Donald Trump speaks with Pastor Franklin Graham after a funeral service at the Billy Graham Library for the Rev. Billy Graham, who died last week at age 99, Friday, March 2, 2018, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) Last week was a week of prayer at the White House. Both...

By: Cal Thomas – townhall.com – February 8, 2020 For 68 years the National Prayer Breakfast has been a political oasis, a chance for Republicans, Democrats, national and world leaders to assemble and pray for each other and the nation. Not this year. One could tell where things were headed when President Trump arrived later than most other presidents and held...

By: Billy Hallowell – stream.org – February 6, 2020 Dr. Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor and the former president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), delivered an impassioned speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, calling all Americans to help usher in “national healing.” Surrounded by politicians, including President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Brooks, a political conservative...

By: Dana Branham, Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Tom Steele & LaVendrick Smith – dallasnews.com – December 29, 2019 A gunman killed two people during a Sunday morning service at a church in White Settlement before members of the congregation fatally shot him, authorities say. Police in White Settlement, about eight miles west of Fort Worth, were called before 11 a.m. to the West Freeway Church...

By: Allen Kim – CNN.com – September 16, 2019 Thinking of sending your “thoughts and prayers” to those affected by tragedy or a natural disaster? Well, not everyone wants them. While Christians value these gestures from religious people, some atheists and agnostics would pay money to avoid them, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...